<p>From talking to freshmen in IV now, I’d say that the biggest thing that sets them apart is that since they have a dining hall in their building, they rarely ever go to the Stetsons. Even when they leave a classroom in the middle of campus, if they all decide to go to dinner- it will be at IV. I remember freshman year (before IV was built) that I’d see a lot of people from non-honors classes in the dining hall during rush hours.</p>
<p>It is good that there are dorm meals. On of my concerns at MIT was less structured meal plans. It seemed like there’d be more isolation.</p>
<p>Does anybody know how many freshman are in the IV honors dorms? It must be a lot.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman living in stetson west right now. I like it a lot here specifically because of the people I’ve met, and given the choice now, I would not move to IV, but if I had the option before coming here, I would definitely choose IV. It’s a generally much nicer building and the floors are not separated by gender, which is definitely a plus. I feel like my freshman experience would not be any worse living in IV. The encounters with my floor would still be the same, if not better, and contact with the rest of the school isn’t that isolated. I know people from IV and I frequently hang out in IV. If you are the type of person who likes the idea of the honors program, you will love IV. There definitely is a lot less craziness there, but if you look for it, you will find it. I think freshman take up roughly the first 9 floors of IV, but there may be a few scattered on the upper floors as well. There are a lot of freshman and upperclassman who don’t have people to get a west village apartment with cause they’re on co-op or something. For the most part though, I haven’t met many people who don’t love IV. </p>
<p>I would definitely recommend it for incoming freshman.</p>
<p>The only freshmen in IV are honors, and this year there are about 540 honors freshmen. The entire dorm (all towers) houses about 1200 students.</p>
<p>thank you for all the input! A big question I have is how the roommate process works. One of my biggest fears is being stuck with someone that I have nothing in common with, which would make it really hard for me to make friends and what not. Does Northeastern do anything to ensure that you are paired with a roommate with whom you share interests?</p>
<p>The roommate questionaire is very simple and asks mostly about study habits and whatnot. You can request a roommate (perhaps someone you know via Facebook or something). Although I do believe the statistics say that people who request roommates are more likely to seek roommate changes. You could also live in an LLC with other people of your major/interests. </p>
<p>I got lucky-- I was randomly placed with my roommate freshman year and I’m still living with her this year and the situation couldn’t have worked out better. But you don’t have to be BFFs with your roommate, you just gotta respect each other and whatnot enough to live together.</p>